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Released: 27-Aug-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Immunotherapy Agent Benefits Patients with Drug-Resistant Multiple Myeloma in First Human Trial
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

In its first clinical trial, a breakthrough antibody therapy produced at least partial remissions in a third of patients with multiple myeloma who had exhausted multiple prior treatments, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other organizations report.

12-Aug-2015 11:30 AM EDT
Health Care Innovation Isn’t About Smart Phone Apps, Penn Medicine Researchers Say
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Health care has much to learn from innovative high-tech companies, but not in the way most people think, according to a Perspective published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and authored by innovation experts from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Innovation, they say, can most effectively achieve meaningful outcomes by testing many new ideas quickly, cheaply, and contextually.



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